The Washington critic., 1887-10-13
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

FoIdhsm, the jockey, is dead.
Lady Bressey died ON board her husbands
yacht Sunbeam.
There 70 a deficit of 100000 In che
Egyptian budget.
The Duchess Of Cumberland has recOv-
cred her reason.
snow-storms, accompanied by thunder
ahd lightning, have prevailed In England
and Wales.
II Is reported that reconciliation has
been effected between King Milan and
Queen Natalie.
The coroner's jury at Mtchclstown has
rendered verdict OF murder against In.
tpeetor Brownrlgg aud five others.
Schedules In the assignment OF James A.
Robinson, New York, the publisher, to
Robert s. Rudd, show liabilities OF 2l,1l0;
nominal assets, Sl7l ,SI3; actual assets,
$g,047.
Montgomery Mcmillan OF Frostburg,
Nd, has been indicted by the grand jury
for murder, In the shooting Of young Lleui-
inert In that place. lie was out on bail,
but has given himself up, and is now 10
jail awaiting trial.
The dead body Of girl, supposed to bo
Anna Ioilnski, 10 years OF age, who left
her home 10 Nanticoke three weeks ago,
was found yesterday on the mountain side
near Plymouth, Pa. There is evidence that
che was murdered.
Gustavus Bayles, IT,, has been appointed
receiver OF August Baus 4 Co. corpora
tion), plano manufacturers, New York, IN
accordance with a petition from the firm for
Its dissolution, 10 order that the assets may
be protected from the expenses Of possible
litigation.
The best counterfeit 50 gold piece ever
seen In the West was received at the Gov.
n
from Cuba, Ill, coming as part OF the post
masters receipts from that point. II was
perfect In form, size and weight, and WAS
marked as baylng been coined In 1855.
The compositors on the Lowell (Mass.)
Morning Mail struck last night and left the
Office In body. The cause of their dis
satisfaction Ia the biting OF mau from AN
outside Office to set up advertisements,
when the cOmpositOrs thought one OF thelr
number should have been selected Tor this
work.
Mr.. and Mrs James Bell OF the yacht
Thistle, left New York for Europe yestcr-
day on the Anchor Line steamship City OF
Rome. They were accompanied by e. H.
Wateou, designer, and Thomas w. Ralsey,
sailmaker Of the Thistle, James Clark,
Wm. Clark and j. S. Clark, part owners OF
theyacht.
Judge Donohue, In New York, has ap-
| tiOnal Secret Telephone Company on the
| application of Margaret p. Nalentlne. The
company was Incorporated in April, 1889,
with an authorized capital Of 5000 900, to
| operate the telephone invented by Professor
j. Harris Rogers.
A special from Ponchatoula, La, says:
Mordoy afternoon a negro drowned his
wife because she refused to live with him
any longer. While she was drowning her
| hFnt bf IN ba md
buckshet into his sisters murderer, who
sank with the body OF his victim to the bot
tom Of the Amite River.
At the third and last day OF the centen-
nial celebration OF the settlement OF Sus-
quehanna County, at Hslstead, Pa, yester-
day, 10000 persons were present. After
| the parade Governor Beaver sat down to O
banquet with three hundred settlers who
are 20 years OF age and have resided In the
county forty years.
A special from Brownsville, Tex, says:
"PTivate advices state that the rancherOs
pursued and caught five OF the abductors OF
Senior Berrera In Starr County and execu-
ted them. Senior Berrera, 1t will be remem-
bered, was captured by these bandits near
his ranch, on the Texas side OF the river,
and held eight days until s. 500 was paid by
his family for his release"
The Democratic State Convention at
| omnhoS ANcp'S ycotCiuhJ, iuOo.
O'Day o. Antelope County for Justice OF
the Supreme Court and DR.. Slicker of
Hitchcock County and Fred. l.. Harris for
regents of the State University. The con-
vention in It's platform indorsed Cleve-
lands administration, reailirmed the prlu-
ciples Of the national platform OF 1884,
recommended the proper regulation of rail.
roads, the reduction Of the revenue ia
what is only necessary, more favorable
legislation for the laboring classes, the rigid
enforcement Of the high-license law and op.
position to prohibition and all tue sump'
tuGry laws.
George Herbert Leonard, the actor, who
was shot by Abraham II. L l-ngcr, the
theatrical manager, at the Continental flo
tel, Philadelphia, In 1855, becsusa Leonard
objected to the intimacy he believed existed
between Erlanger aud Mrs. Leonard, who Il
known to the stage as Louise Balfe, brought
tuit against the manager for $25,01t
damages for personal injuries. The case
was tiled yesterday In New York, aud the
Jury disagreed, standing 10 to 9 iu favor o
the plaintiff. During the trial Mrs. Leonard
swofe that she was not Leonard's wife, bu
his mistress. Leonard left the Boucicaul
Company In the West to bring this suit, snt
during the afternoon received word that bill
position had been filed
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